ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the development of core traditions and approaches to urban planning and policy. It focuses on early ideas about creating utopian visions of the 'good city' and discusses how these ideas have shaped later urban developments. The chapter discusses the challenges facing urban planning and policy in the early twenty-first century. The promotion of more commercial aims of urban regeneration through central government policy and in local authority practice has been characterized as a shift away from managerialism towards entrepreneurialism. The garden city idea proved an important foundation for early urban planning movements and Howard's ideas were widely disseminated both in the UK and more widely across Europe, North America, Japan and Australia, with many countries creating their own garden city associations. Le Corbusier developed his planning principles in two key visions: the Contemporary City and the Radiant City.
